Creator
Hamilton, Francis

Contributor to Resource
Great American 3D

Date of Original
1880/1960

Subject
African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta
African American neighborhoods--Georgia--Atlanta
Auburn Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.)
Central business districts--Georgia--Atlanta
African American churches--Georgia--Atlanta
African American churches--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civic leaders--Georgia--Atlanta
African American business enterprises--Georgia--Atlanta
African American businesspeople--Georgia--Atlanta

Location
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798

Medium
maps
texts (document genres)
photographs

Type
StillImage, Text

Description
Web site presenting the history of Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, which was home to more financial institutions, professionals, educators, entertainers, and politicians than any other street in the South before the Civil Rights movement. The site documents racial intolerance as well as events, organizations, and people significant in the history of Auburn Avenue through maps, images, and text. It requires Flash 6.0 and Shockwave 8.5 plug-ins., The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.

Metadata URL
http://sweetauburn.us/

Language
eng

Rights Holder
All the photos except those by the author need to be safe guarded for their copyrights, and this site is not in the public domain officially until that occurs.

Contributing Institution
Sweet Auburn Avenue

Rights